What Washington’s response to coronavirus tells us

President Donald Trump appointed Vice President Mike Pence to head up the task force to combat the coronavirus, but many across the country are unhappy with how the administration is handling the outbreak. Chris Cillizza explains how the coronavirus became political.

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72 comments

    1. @darknite 123222 It can travel on sound waves. Have someone who has it call him. If he can hear, he will be infected.

    2. Well, you speaks as if the Dems have no right to voice for the people in medias whilst Pompeo dumbing all Dems voices on his office table, Dems would be considered politicize the issue of they expose the Truth in the medias during these 2020 years of election???😨😨😨😤😤😤

    3. @Mathy Don The Demotards have their next impeachment hoax: Trump was colluding with the Coronavirus to sabotage Joe Biden’s already feeble mind before the next elections. Where’s Adam Schiff when you need him? “Trump: ‘You’re going infect Joe Biden’s mind, see? To make him dumber than he already is as the Democratic nominee, see?'”

  1. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” –Arnold Glasow

    1. @Hawkzblade I think all western countries, and a fair few third world ones, are better equipped than the US.

    2. @doobie s oringes Luck the President has an IQ of infinity. Keep spreading the word Trump 2020 American hero

    3. @doobie s oringes Luck the President has an IQ of infinity. Keep spreading the word Trump 2020 American hero

  2. It’s NOT “Washington” response… Its REPUBLICANS response.
    Always conflating the two parties to play the BOTH SIDES game has gotten us to this point.

    1. With CNN propping-up Joe “Dementia” Biden…

      We can look forward to another 4 years of Trump..

    2. Entirely Indifferent you nailed it, it’s time for the people to take it back, term limits on Congress!!!

    3. Fiona Anderson oh so sorry he only originally asked for 2 and a half billion fucking dollars, so sorry Fiona!

    1. . SERPENT LEFT CORPORATE BEAST SYSTEM LABMADE VIRUS JUST LIKE THE LAB MADE EBOLA OBAMA TRIED TO SPREAD

  3. You don’t get it from drinking Corona, you get it from reading novels. Durrr!! Clue’s in the name, people.

    1. @William H Music 2020
      Hows the hormone pills coming on willie, and have you mastered moms high heels yet.

    2. Is it true what they say, that democrats are fascists?
      What will happen, when Chuck Schumer murder the two SC justices?
      Will he go to jail for murder?

    1. @Powerage Scott one dum dum at a time.
      #TRUMP2020🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
      #BESTPRESIDENTEVER
      #MAGA👈👈👈👈👍

    1. Jonathan J.
      Step one 🥾📺 . Step two 🥾📻. Step three 🥾 📰 . ……..Step four relax 😴 . CUT THE PROPAGANDA !!

    2. @SBRINKERHOFF
      there’s a cure for the flu, there isnt for this.
      watch it spread then the truth has to come out the REAL NUMBERS.

    3. @M Murph that’s actually a good strategy. Libtards are the ones that cluster in cities, share needles and have butt sex. They are more likely to contract it.

    4. @cj p
      You can catch it anytime, its a bad cold extension.
      Flu season typically runs from November through March, although you can get it in October or as late as May. You can catch the flu at other times of the year. But symptoms outside of flu season are more likely to be from a cold or an allergy. Flu tends to be much worse than a cold.

      So there must be a cure or you wouldnt get it twice.
      dont rely on heat as trump lies about or sun beds would be more popular.

  4. Um….while I can appreciate the effort to inform, the gravity of the situation isn’t silly. In a month from now, the tone will change. This is in our yard now. We have been dealt a hand in this game of life and death and we don’t get a choice about it.

    1. @To Max this man presents to cnn morons like they are in the 6th grade. If elmo shows up I won’t be surprised.

    2. @To Max I like Chris and I like ‘the point’. I am, however, getting burnt-out from news outlets polluting the airwaves and internet with seemingly infinite productions of the SAME regurgitated facts we have already heard a hundred times in the past 72 hours. Remember when ‘news’ was actually something you didn’t know?

    1. Na, you lie, serpent pigeon, there’s no truth in you because you are an expendable serpent puppet, your life is meaningless now all u have is misery and eternal brimstone.
      **standing ovation**

    1. I was just thinking about that phrase, about how once there was an idea, an idea of truly “living free” and whatever it means to each individual.

      The ones who have pushed the separation are evil geniuses because everyone is falling for it and it’s really sad. We stopped seeing each other as fellow human beings, no stipulation attached, a long time ago. It may have always been there, but it was a minority of people that felt that way but, we are certainly a nation divided now and we have doomed ourselves.

    2. So tell me which side dresses in all black and attacks elderly. How many assaults have happened just for wearing a maga hat?
      Which side supports and endless oppression narrative where straight white males oppress women, minorities, and gays?
      Which side burns the American flag with every protest?

  5. EVERYONES SAYING IT ONLY KILLS THE OLD OR THE PEOPLE WITH HEALTH ISSUES THEN EXPLAIN THE DEATHS OF THE HEALTHY DOCTORS

    1. doctors work long hours and due to sleep deprivation, their immune system suffers. The virus kills people with bad immune systems if we have to be accurate. In this case, it’s normally old people and people with pre-existing conditions.

    2. You realize there’s a huge difference between a regular person getting it from a few droplets, vs a doctor staying in the same environment for 12 hours a day with it surrounding them. Their body got overloaded with the virus and it was able to do its damage rapidly.

  6. Just so we are all on the same page:
    Virus: SARS-CoV-2
    Disease: COVID-19
    SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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